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Getting dirty for a cause that's worthy

By SHARON KAHN | Sep. 12, 2013

Madison Darling, a junior health and human services major, was covered in mud from head to toe and she loved every second of it. Approximately 10,000 females covered in pink and brown climbed, crawled and challenged themselves to complete the Dirty Girl Mud Run in support of cancer awareness in Buffalo suburb Lancaster on Saturday and Sunday. The participants organized in teams to take on various woman-themed obstacles at the non-competitive 5K race.

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Smoking incident causes fire in Spaulding 1

By Rebecca Bratek | May 2, 2013

Flames broke out in a Spaulding Building 1, fourth floor dorm room at approximately 6 p.m. on Thursday.

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Hope for Boston

By ANDREA SAADAN | Apr. 28, 2013

In about a month's time, Buffalo's annual marathon will take place. Thomas Scott, a senior political science major, said it's scary to think what happened during the Boston Marathon could happen anywhere. On Patriots' Day this year, two bombs exploded during the annual Boston Marathon near the finish line.

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Around the world in 20 months

By Rebecca Bratek | Apr. 18, 2013

Over the past two years, UB has invested $400,000 in an alumni engagement and fundraising tour. The tour has raised over $8.9 million - over 22 times more than the investment. And it's not over. UB President Satish Tripathi has traveled to nine states and four countries on the tour.

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Baby steps for UB Child Care Center

By ANDREA SAADAN | Apr. 16, 2013

In a hidden corner of UB North Campus, just beside South Lake Village, is a small building. It isn't a place meant for UB students.

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Not a gold digger

By ANDREA SAADAN | Apr. 16, 2013

Don't call Douglas Perrelli a modern-day Indiana Jones. As an archaeologist himself, Perrelli sees the fictional character as nothing but a "fake" and a "borderline unethical artifact looter." Perrelli is the director and principal investigator of the Archaeological Survey within the Department of Anthropology at UB.

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Eighteen minutes to change perspectives

By ANDREA SAADAN | Mar. 24, 2013

Kevin Purdy is looking for normal people - average, everyday people - who are passionate about what they do to speak in front of hundreds of people for 18 minutes. Purdy, a freelance writer, is the founder and license holder of TEDxBuffalo.

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Young residents 'count down the days' to move out of the Heights

By LISA KHOURY | Mar. 20, 2013

Daniel Brody was sitting on his toilet when a liquid from the upstairs bathroom began leaking on his head. He hopes it was just water. It took his landlord about a week to fix the leak, he said. Landlord issues are just one of the problems students experience in the University Heights.

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Brothers band together for Buffalo's community

By ANDREA SAADAN | Mar. 7, 2013

Four years ago when Kyle McJury was pledging to his fraternity, the freshman would fill his free time cleaning out yards and shoveling driveways for the elderly and disabled residents who couldn't do it themselves. Today, McJury, a senior finance major and vice president of community service for UB's Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Kappa chapter participates in various community service projects with the fraternity. Founded in 1925, Delta Sigma Pi, a national fraternity, is the university's largest professional business fraternity that prides itself on its involvement in the community.

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The best sports bars Buffalo has to offer

By MARKUS MCCAINE | Jan. 29, 2013

Brett Hull just skated through the crease and buried the Sabres in game seven. Mike Tolbert got his third touchdown of the day on his third carry - burying your fantasy team to last place.

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Sister Sparrow takes flight with The Dirty Birds

By FELICIA HUNT | Nov. 18, 2012

Women dressed in flowing skirts danced to the beat and men with canes stood at a normally packed venue in downtown Buffalo.

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Students contribute to unsafe housing conditions in the Heights

By RACHEL RAIMONDI | Nov. 18, 2012

Residents of 94 Tyler St. - a house owned by University Heights landlord Jeremy Dunn - ripped out the smoke detectors, broke doors and shot a potato gun in the house since signing their lease in June, according to Gary Ziolkowski, chief building inspector for the City of Buffalo. The students told Ziolkowski it was because they were bored this summer.

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"Ready, set, go with Startup Buffalo"

By AMI DIALLO | Nov. 15, 2012

For 54 hours straight, students will pitch, plan and design. Some will succeed and some will break under the pressure, all in hopes of winning first prize from a group of successful entrepreneurs - the very people they one day hope to join. Buffalo's Startup Weekend 2012 is a 54-hour event that starts on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

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International students find home for the holidays

By LISA KHOURY | Nov. 13, 2012

During Thanksgiving, winter and spring break, most UB students leave campus and go home. Campus Dining and Shops closes 35 shops.

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South Campus' hidden treasures

By ERIN MAYNARD | Oct. 28, 2012

Shana Wirechowski thought showing her parents a room full of human brains was the best way to introduce them to UB. On Wednesday, Wierchowski, a first-year medical student, toured the Museum of Neuroanatomy with her parents.

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We're not alone

By RACHEL RAIMONDI | Oct. 23, 2012

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Silo City in photographs

By SHU YEE RACHEL LIM | Oct. 23, 2012

It was still two hours from dawn's break as a lone car rolled into the gas station. The warm, dark air surrounded 49-year-old Thomas Bittner, associate professor of philosophy and geography at UB, who stepped out of his vehicle to get coffee. This was his morning ritual before heading off to photograph the ghostly remains of what was once Buffalo's life source - Silo City.

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New York is lookin' good

By AMI DIALLO | Oct. 2, 2012

After his third semester as an aerospace engineering major at UB, Yaron Bernstein had an epiphany: he was not following his dream.

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Life in the Heights

By ERIN ELLIS | Sep. 30, 2012

A carbon monoxide leak. Faulty electrical wiring. A ceiling on the verge of collapse. Missing landlords. In the last week, five students have had to evacuate their University Heights homes. During Saturday's housing blitz, a student living on Heath Street left her house so Buffalo City inspectors could immediately fix a potentially fatal carbon monoxide leak. Last Wednesday, four students vacated their Englewood Avenue home so inspectors could fix faulty electric wiring, which could have caused electrocution or a fire. In all of these instances, the landlords are to blame and hard to reach. On Saturday, Dan Ryan, director of off-campus student relations; Gary Ziolkowski, a City of Buffalo chief building inspector; and two other city building inspectors evaluated the homes on Heath Street.

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From professor to farmer

By AMI DIALLO | Sep. 18, 2012

Twenty-five years ago, on her way home from work, Geri Hens had no clue she was living her last day as an outdoor sciences college professor. Her life changed in a split second. She was hit by a drunk driver. Shesuffered injuries to her neck and back, and it was in the hospital that she had an epiphany.